KAR328 - Bummer, sorry to hear your hip is bothering you again. Mine bothers me when I walk. It's fine when I run. Wanna trade? :laugh::bigsmile: Mine seems to be the piriformis muscle and has the added bonus of sciatic pain...especially when going up stairs. I'm trying to stretch it a couple times a day and I'm also foam rolling the heck out of it trying to beat it into submission. :laugh: Some days it works, others not so well.

I've been reading up on that muscle. Mine also hurts more going up steps or inclines than down them. I did stop googling hip fractures since the pain was completely gone for over a week and I did a few miles on them. I've found some stretches, the pigeon pose works well and I use a foam roller but probably need to do more. I'm going to NYC in two weeks and need the legs so I'll stick with walking for now.

PS - you're higher on my Fitbit dashboard than you usually are. Nice going! :flowerforyou:

What are the odds you're having similar pains?!? I haven't tried that pigeon pose....I'm doing a different variation (don't know the name for it), but it hurts so bad. I can't stretch it very far. I sit on the floor with my feet as far apart as I can, then pull one foot in tight so my knee is bent and then I try to lean forward. Well mostly I lean way to the side because that's the only direction I can go without the pain sending me through the roof. Not sure what else I can do. I've been walking approximately 2 miles every weekday at lunchtime and it starts off so tight, but does loosen up after about a half mile in....enough so I can walk without looking like I have a hitch in my step. I hate it. Not sure what started it or how I hurt it. I remember back in maybe March when I was running on the treadmill and heard a pop in a tendon near my hip and then there was bruising a couple days later, but that pain was more on the direct side of my hip. My previous research pointed at it maybe being my tensor fasciae latae and the noise I heard was a hip bone plucking it like a rubber band. Maybe in letting that heal, it changed the way I walk or run and that caused an inbalance that led to the piriformis acting up? I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I'm not even a health professional like you are. :laugh: Anyway, I hope we can both get this figured out because it's no fun!

Thanks for the cheers for my Fitbit steps! I'm pretty happy about having a decent week.

Dave